Acquire

To obtain, procure: as, to acquire property, a domicil.

Compare Hold, 6. Acquired.

In the law of descent, includes lands that come to a person in any other way than by gift, devise, or descent, from an ancestor.

After-acquired.

Obtained after some event or transaction: as, property acquired after an adjudication in bankruptcy, or after a judgment has been entered.

Acquisition

Procuring a thing — specifically, property; also, the property itself.

See Inherit; Purchase, 2, 3.

Original acquisition. When, at the moment, the thing is not another's, i. e., is acquired by first occupancy — by accession, intellectual labor, etc.

Derivative acquisition

When the thing is obtained from another by his act or the act of the law; as in cases of gift, sale, forfeiture, succession, marriage, judgment, insolvency, intestacy. The property that a bankrupt acquires, after he has devoted all his possessions to the payment of his debts, is his individually. Where one makes a deed of land as owner and subsequently acquires an outstanding title, the acquisition enures to the grantee by estoppel.

See under Covenant, 1.

A judgment may not be a lien upon after-acquired land, unless specially made so, as by a scire facias or some analogous proceeding.